Veiled Dancer_mold

Title: Veiled Dancer_mold
Date: Unknown
Medium: Plaster, Mold release agent
Dimensions: 9.25 x 3.25 x 6.6 in.
Accession Number: 2006.396
On View: Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University Fuller Gallery 204 (Meta Fuller 4, Shelf 1)
Classification: Mold, Casting
Description: Two-piece plaster cast with cotton twine. Plaster is wide with a wide bottom that narrows at the middle before slightly widening again at top. Plaster is white with specks of red.
Accrual Method: Collection was gifted to the Danforth in 2006. Unfortunately they sat uncatalogued for close to 10 years. It took until an IMLS grant awarded in 2015 through 2016 for this collection to be catalogued and put into the collections database. - Rachel 2021
Provenance: Gift of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust Part of the Estate of Meta V. W. Fuller from 1968-2001. In the collection of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust, 2001-2006
Condition: Good: One of the cast pieces has a horizontal crack at midpoint, extending across the piece; piece is unstable. That same piece exhibits several additional cracks in lower third but they do not appear to be through the entire piece.
Credit: Gift of the Meta V. W. Fuller Trust